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Mayor McFarlane agrees: "When it comes to public transportation, the Triangle needs a “comprehensive system” that allows people to easily walk or ride a bike to their destination after they get off a bus or train, Raleigh’s mayor says.

“It’s not just connecting dots doing light rail and connecting with commuter rail and bus rapid transit,” Nancy McFarlane said. “It’s more than just the spine. When you get off the spot, you’ve got to get to where you’re going.”

Ways to get to Dorothea Dix Park are key to people coming! If we make it more convenient to get there, people all over Raleigh would be coming more often! Not to mention the inconvenience of having to find your way twisting and turning through roads to get there. I could write a whole essay on this, but that would be inconvenient to read, so let’s get these sidewalks and bike paths to Dorothea Dix Park! What do you say?

"LimeBike, a California company, has brought its bike-share program to N.C. State University at the invitation of the school’s transportation department. Three hundred of the company’s bright green bikes were set out on campus as students returned on Aug. 16, and since then more than 1,400 people have downloaded the company’s mobile app that lets them unlock a bike and charges them for the time they’re using it."

"A recent push from Hutchinson for a bikeway along the north side of I-40 in western Wake County could bring this scenario closer to reality. The Triangle Bikeway, as the concept is known, would allow cyclists to travel unimpeded for about five miles between Trenton Road in West Raleigh, near I-40’s Wade Avenue split, and Airport Boulevard in northwest Morrisville."

"The research on this topic in my home state of North Carolina is spearheaded by an oft-cited report released by the Institute of Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) studying the effects of cycling in the Outer Banks: cycling investments are returned nine-fold by extending vacations, drawing new vacationers to the area, and encouraging them to return again and again. Cyclists tend to have higher-than-average incomes and educational levels, facts that businesses should be aware of when thinking about creating bike-friendly atmospheres (adding a $350 loop-and-post bicycle rack out front would be a good start). And you don’t have to be a big city or a big tourist destination to realize economic benefits: the tiny town of Scotland Neck, North Carolina pulls in a couple hundred visitors each year with their County Roads bike tour. Many of those people buy gas, hotel rooms, food, souvenirs, or all of the above."

"North Carolina towns and cities will find it harder to convert car lanes to bike lanes on some roads if new Senate-approved restrictions become law. The legislation would outlaw any “road diet” project that removes automobile lanes to make room for bike lanes on a busy state road traveled by more than 20,000 cars a day – or on a road where the change will significantly degrade traffic flow over the next 20 years."

North Carolina towns and cities will find it harder to add bike lanes on some roads if new Senate-approved restrictions become law. The legislation was approved the same day the Durham City Council voted to convert car lanes to bike lanes on a one-mile stretch of U.S. 15-501 Business.